CVE-2026-31524

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: asus: avoid memory leak in asusreportfixup The asusreportfixup function was returning a newly allocated kmemdup-allocated buffer, but never freeing it. Switch to devmkzalloc to ensure the memory is managed and freed...

CVE-2026-31524

CVE-2026-31524 affects the Linux kernel HID ASUS driver. The asus_report_fixup() function allocated memory with kmemdup() but did not free it, causing a memory leak; the fix switches to devm_kzalloc() so memory is automatically freed with the device. A harmless out-of-bounds read was also correct...